The former prison guard captured headlines in 2004, when he was shot twice and tasered by police snipers following a chase through the Adelaide Hills.

Clavell was armed with a shotgun and drove a 12-tonne road grader in the chase.

He was sentenced to four years prison over the incident and during his sentence he was involved in a 24-hour riot at Port Augusta prison in October 2008.

In February this year, Clavell was found not guilty of aggravated causing serious harm to a woman at a Tranmere home in December 2012.

During the trial, District Court Judge Paul Muscat heard the woman had been introduced by a mutual friend to a man called “Rodney” after attending a music festival on December 1, 2012.

Two weeks later, the woman was back at the Tranmere home, where “Rodney” was also present.

She told the court that when she was about to light a cigarette, the man told her “you’re not lighting that cigarette”.

In his judgment, Judge Muscat said “Rodney” walked into the room carrying a bag.

“(Rodney) then began removing items out of the bag. She recalled there being a knife, a studded glove, some other sharp object, gaffer tape or black duct tape and handcuffs,” Judge Muscat said.

“(Rodney) then placed the black leather glove on to his hand and began pacing around the lounge room where he was ‘sort of swinging that arm, not necessarily punching the air but maybe warming up’.”

The man then swung his arm “with extreme force and punched her in the middle of her face”.

“She recalled the glove coming towards her and that it hit her ‘between the eyes, like, the nose, and cracked my bone, I heard it crack’,” Judge Muscat said of the victim’s account of the assault.

When the terrified woman jumped through a window to get away, “Rodney” allegedly threatened to find and rape her and demanded the keys to a hire car and punched her again and pulled hair from her head.

“Rodney” then told the woman if she went to police “he’d f**ken kill her or he’d make sure someone did” before punching her twice again — ending the 45-minute ordeal.

The woman spent 10 days in hospital and sustained a number of facial fractures, could not open her left eye and also suffered a deep cut to her ankle when she jumped through the window.

Judge Muscat said police arrested Clavell at Kidman Park on December 26, 2012, when they found an armoured glove and weapons including a double-edged dagger, gun and a “homemade stabber’.

Clavell’s DNA and that of the victim were found inside the glove, however there were also a number of other unidentified samples found by forensic scientists.

The woman also told police that a photo of Clavell showed he was of the same build and had the same tattoos as the man who bashed her.

Judge Muscat found that the glove had been used in the assault, but could not find beyond reasonable doubt that Clavell was the assailant.

“Where the evidence raises a reasonable possibility that the circumstances point to someone other than Mr Clavell being the assailant, then that possibility must be excluded by the prosecution beyond reasonable doubt,” he said.